When looking at a student who is graded on a 4.5 scale, will colleges automatically deduct .5 from their GPA?
Thanks,
JKidd
<p>My school uses a 4.5 scale. Colleges don’t “deduct” 0.5, they just view it in a different context.</p>
<p>Weighted GPAs are nonsense. Whoever came up with the idea?</p>
<p>mm…I’m not talking about weighted. My school’s scale looks like this…</p>
<p>4.5 (95-100)=A+
4.0 (90-94)=A
3.5 (85-89)=B+
etc.</p>
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<p>Someone with the radical idea that kids in AP classes have to work harder to get the same grade as a kid in a regular class, and thus should be given more credit, perhaps?</p>
<p>actually morning, i bet it was intended to help students. since ap classes are supposed to be harder, you have a higher chance of not getting an a or b in the class. the weighted gpa helps pad that discrepancy. for example, you get a b average in all your class but all the classes are aps. unweighted - 3.0 weighted 4.0 (these two numbers are just to show the effect of gpa weights). see how that helps your gpa?</p>
<p>My school uses the exact same gpa scale, and they don’t give extra weight to certain types of classes either. Most colleges pretty much ignore the gpa printed on your transcript. They take the grades from all your academic subjects and recalculate your gpa on their own scale. Sometimes they reweight your grades to give extra points for advanced classes.</p>
<p>90% is not superior and therefore should not be an A. AP courses are supposed to be college level courses with college level results. I would think admissions would have more respect for a legit B than a weighted A.</p>
<p>My school’s unweighted GPA is out of 4.3 because we have an “honors curriculum.” Regular courses are as hard as honors courses in other schools. Our unweighted GPA is out of 5.3 (6 AP’s with A+).</p>